Do you know what the pesticides in food are doing to you?

Are they really that dangerous?

Pesticides
are used today on almost every crop in the world…except on organic and
pesticide free crops. These sprayed crops are then sold to the general
public, fed to animals for public consumption and used in many other by
products.

People then eat this produce; cereals, grains, vegetables, fruit and
meat. Yes the insects have been killed which you might think is a good
thing. But these pesticides have been designed to KILL living organisms.
If you think about this, you could not but come to a conclusion that
maybe these dangerous chemicals might hurt us also, especially when we
are eating them EVERY DAY.

The World Health Organization created the Codex Alimentarius
Commission (CAC), with the purpose of creating international guidelines
for food safety. Despite the CAC’s stated focus of protecting
consumers, the CAC approved seven of the most toxic chemical compounds
known to man for use as pesticides to be used on food for animal and
human consumption, without any concern about the possible consequences
of regular ingestion of these pesticides.

These
dangerous chemicals which were approved by the CAC are often referred to
as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP). That means that they are
persistent and not easily expelled. They may never be expelled from the
body without help!

We are eating this on a daily
basis, from fresh produce, meat and by-products. Some also runs off into
the oceans and other bodies of water contaminating them and the
creatures that live in them. Organoclorine, one of the major POP’s, may
be responsible to contaminating the world’s seafood supply. No wonder
health and nutrition experts are now saying that seafood is becoming
unsafe to eat on a regular basis!

So how do you get it out of your food?

Well
of course you do need to wash all your fruit and vegetables you buy but
this won’t get these chemicals off your food completely because it can
permeate the vegetable or fruit completely. The best thing you can do is
to grow your own organically, and/or buy organic produce. Especially
the crops that contain the highest amounts of pesticide residues; eg.
broccoli, strawberries, celery and stone fruits.